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!/72 Gato Diorama
Posted by rangeredward on Monday, August 27, 2012 3:32 PM

I am building the Revell 1/72 Gato Submarine and have decided to build a diorama featuring the submarine at the Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor. I need to how big the diorama base needs to be?

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Monday, August 27, 2012 3:59 PM

I am assuming you are haveing the Boat tied up at dockside. It all depends on what your scene is protraying really. I would think the main issue is how much of the dock side you want to show.

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Posted by rangeredward on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:05 PM

I was thinking of showing the Warehouse 2000lb crane and a guard house  and the torpedos being loaded on to the Sub and

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:38 PM

wow, that sounds big. I am guessing the warehouse would be seperated from the wharf by a road and the crane is on the wharf side. It really depends on the size of the warehouse. Assuming the dio is going straight across the front, often considered a no no in Dio's, but i find it works sometimes, then i would put the sub at the front edge of the scene and the warehouse at the back up to the edge.

Not sure if that helps.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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  • From: Atlanta, Ga.
Posted by MrSquid2U on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:17 PM

Size? Think "Dining Room."Wink

       

 

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